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A question about hell
November 23, 2015 at 7:58 pm
Traditional Christian doctrine on hell is that you suffer for eternity at the bottom of a lake of fire, but wouldn't after say a few hundred year, being the lake of fire would become like breathing air and walking outside to us?
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RE: A question about hell
November 23, 2015 at 8:00 pm
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RE: A question about hell
November 23, 2015 at 8:10 pm
They'd have to turn up the heat, certainly.
I imagine, unless your body functions are suppressed, that you'd eventually acclimatise to the pain.
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RE: A question about hell
November 23, 2015 at 8:14 pm
Your nervous system would continuously regenerate and transmit the billion degree temperature of the fiery lake with perfect fidelity to your immortal soul.
And no, your soul will not acclimate to the heat, otherwise, what's the point of infinite torment forever ???
As an infinite being, God will demand and collect INFINITE suffering from ALL transgressors.
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RE: A question about hell
November 23, 2015 at 8:20 pm
Realistically speaking, anything you can live through is something you'd eventually get used to, unless the guy in charge is personally making sure you don't. And as christians are fond of saying, the guy in charge of everything is their god Yahweh. Somehow we're expected to believe he's a good guy.
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RE: A question about hell
November 23, 2015 at 8:51 pm
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If I died and went to Hell today, and the next day you died and went to Hell, would I have spent a greater amount of eternity in Hell than you? How does one have "more" eternity?
Mathematically speaking, I will always have spent one extra day in Hell, and your suffering will always be lesser to mine in sheer amount inflicted over time.
How can you truly be in Hell when comparatively I will always have known greater suffering?
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RE: A question about hell
November 23, 2015 at 9:09 pm
(November 23, 2015 at 8:14 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Your nervous system would continuously regenerate and transmit the billion degree temperature of the fiery lake with perfect fidelity to your immortal soul.
And no, your soul will not acclimate to the heat, otherwise, what's the point of infinite torment forever ???
As an infinite being, God will demand and collect INFINITE suffering from ALL transgressors.
Well fuck him.
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RE: A question about hell
November 24, 2015 at 1:39 am
The better question is hell endothermic or exothermic.
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RE: A question about hell
November 24, 2015 at 1:41 am
(November 23, 2015 at 8:20 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Realistically speaking, anything you can live through is something you'd eventually get used to, unless the guy in charge is personally making sure you don't. And as christians are fond of saying, the guy in charge of everything is their god Yahweh. Somehow we're expected to believe he's a good guy.
Even if were doomed to a eternity of torture and pain there is a finite amount of ways to get punished.
And even then we would all get used to the pain.
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RE: A question about hell
November 24, 2015 at 2:30 am
(November 23, 2015 at 8:51 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: If I died and went to Hell today, and the next day you died and went to Hell, would I have spent a greater amount of eternity in Hell than you? How does one have "more" eternity?
Mathematically speaking, I will always have spent one extra day in Hell, and your suffering will always be lesser to mine in sheer amount inflicted over time.
How can you truly be in Hell when comparatively I will always have known greater suffering?
Well, there can't be a paradox there. Infinite suffering has been decreed to avenge God's mighty offense at human sin, and God will get it no matter what.
God is infinite (whatever the fuck that means), so perhaps, infinite torment can be meted out instantaneously ?
Whatever your 'end state' is after an infinite duration of infinite pain, it would still be knowable to an all knowing God, even before He's had it done to anyone, and I'm thinking, it could be implemented/inflicted upon a deserving sinner over any time interval God's whim happened to whim. Whether over an actual eternity or in the blink of an eye, God'll get you.
In other words, ANKA, you've essentially set us on the path to concluding that God's infinite torment is essentially timeless.
Good work there.
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